AVANT - Aviònica Avançada per al Control del Tràfic Aeri del Futur

Project Description

This project is the contribution of Catalonia to the new model of air traffic management, as defined in the European framework of SESAR (Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research).
The project contributes to the future system of air traffic control with integrated innovations in the three following subsystems: communications, positioning and conflict detection.

• Increase the robustness of communication systems, maintaining reliability despite the obstacles of the terrain or weather conditions. (INDRA SYSTEMAS with the UPC)
• On the other hand, providing improvements in the system that allow to ensure separation between aircraft using the new navigation technologies (Pildo LABS with CTAE)
• Finally providing new safety systems to prevent air turbulence generated by aircraft can be seen as a risk in future scenarios with increasing traffic density. (GTD with CTAE)

Collaborating Companies or Organisations

Indra's Role

The research line in advanced avionics equipment is very important for the future company. The future of embedded systems is being designed to support satellite as the primary means of communications. Indra seeks to position finding solutions to technical challenges yet to solve with regard to satellite communications for aircraft and at the same time become a key figure in this field worldwide.

Universities and Technological Centres

Technologies used

The study (of Indra) as far as technology is concerned, it has focused on:

• Development of new algorithms for estimating the link quality (e g, SNIR, BER / PER, ...) to provide more reliability ACM systems.
• Proof of concept of an ACM. For this task will be used demodulators existing designs (based on commercial DVB-S2)

• Development of pilot symbol-based synchronizers as a reference for comparison with newer techniques proposed in the project scope.
• Development of Code-Aided structures of turbo-synchronization. Feasibility study and simulation performance

More information

• Development of Code-Aided structures of turbo-synchronization. Feasibility study and simulation performance